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Causes and prevention of long-term disability due to low back pain. An inquiry from the perspective of insurance medicine. KU Leuven

Marc Du Bois
Background In western societies, low back pain (LBP) is one of the leading disorders resulting in long-term disability. In Belgium, disability is compensated through the Belgian Social security system where medical advisers of sickness funds play a key role in the disability evaluation of claimants. In daily practice, they are often confronted with claimants suffering from LBP and LBP surgery. Over the years, there has been a change of focus ...

A travel behaviour study through learning and clustering of fuzzy cognitive maps Universiteit Hasselt

Maikel LEON, Lusine MKRTCHYAN, Benoit DEPAIRE, Da RUAN, Koen VANHOOF
Transport management and behaviour modelling appears in modern societies because of the importance for all social and economic processes. Using in this field advanced computer techniques like the Artificial Intelligence ones is really relevant from the scientific, economic and social point of view. In this paper we deal with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps as an approach in representing the behaviour and operation of such complex systems. We also show how ...

Oligosaccharides in infant formula Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Yvan Vandenplas, Irina Zakharova, Yulia Dmitrieva

The gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota differs between breast-fed and classic infant formula-fed infants. Breast milk is rich in prebiotic oligosaccharides (OS) and may also contain some probiotics, but scientific societies do not recommend the addition of prebiotic OS or probiotics to standard infant formula. Nevertheless, many infant formula companies often add one or the other or both. Different types of prebiotic OS are used in infant ...

ART in Europe, 2019 Universiteit Antwerpen

Jesper Smeenk, Christine Wyns, Christian De Geyter, Markus Kupka, Christina Bergh, Irene Cuevas Saiz, Diane De Neubourg, Karel Rezabek, Andreas Tandler-Schneider, Ionna Rugescu, et al.
STUDY QUESTION What are the data and trends on ART and IUI cycle numbers and their outcomes, and on fertility preservation (FP) interventions, reported in 2019 as compared to previous years?SUMMARY ANSWER The 23rd ESHRE report highlights the rising ART treatment cycles and children born, alongside a decline in twin deliveries owing to decreasing multiple embryo transfers; fresh IVF or ICSI cycles exhibited higher delivery rates, whereas frozen ...

Updating the interpretive turn: new arguments in hermeneutics Universiteit Antwerpen

Michiel Meijer
This book explores the meaning of the interpretive turn in the philosophy of the human sciences for a variety of contemporary philosophical debates. While hermeneutics seems to be firmly established as a tradition and methodology in the human sciences, interpretive philosophy seems to be under increasing pressure in recent philosophical trends such as the "posthuman turn," the "nonhuman turn," and the "speculative turn." Responding to this ...

50 years existence and active participation of EEMS (now EEMGS) in the scientific community Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Lisbeth E. Knudsen, David H. Phillips, Micheline Volders

EEMS and its successor Society EEMGS have provided a dynamic and successful platform to stimulate research and exchanges among the different actors involved in the protection of the environment and of human health from exposure to genome stressors. It includes basic, translational and applied research projects. This was possible due to the enthusiasm, creativity and support of scientists convinced of the importance of these issues. In the ...

Audiences’ coping practices with intrusive interfaces : researching audiences in algorithmic, datafied, platform societies Universiteit Gent

Anne Mollen, Frederik Dhaenens
People in their role as audiences are increasingly confronted with intrusive digital media technologies that seek to collect personal data, shape people’s media experiences through algorithms and increasingly work towards establishing what is already being called a platform society. This tendency will become even more pertinent in the near future with the Internet of Things permeating many more aspects of our everyday lives. Software interfaces ...